While reading The Onion‘s sister online news site, the AV Club, I stumbled upon some very sad news about the death of the indie magazine, Paste. I honestly owe a huge part of my (sometimes embarrassing) taste in music to this magazine, which has covered some of the most seminal albums of the 2000’s. During it’s influential 8 year run, Paste has kept afloat in the dying print news industry by offering a subscription plan that only predicated that you pay as much as you want (something I remember doing a few years ago!) I’ll always remember how it was the only magazine that came with a free sampler CD, which I could use to pretend like I had heard about “that band” before they were famous.
Although I’ll miss the tangible magazine itself, with its endless supply of collage-worthy pictures and the greatest of playlists, I know Paste is in a better place now…
… Twitter, that is.
And another one gone and another one gone, another one bites the dust-eh.
Interesting links to the magazine though I wonder how they could survive in the internet age with a print magazine. I would think they would get a lot more tyraffice (and probably a lot more advertising revenue) if they just went online. It makes it easy to hear some interesting music.